Olives @olives@qoto.org

Frustratingly, quite a few articles covering animations targeted at adults are wink wink and assume someone already knows what it is (which makes it hard for me to include it in a post to someone who does not).

For a blog, I'm experimenting with both hosted and self-hosted tools.

For the next update, I might tidy up the prohibition reference, and talk about animations targeted at adults more.

Remember that there were people who would use "porn sites" as general video hosting sites, perhaps because of less arbitrary / weird moderation. #FreeSpeech

It would be nice if a couple of studies explicitly said "photographs" rather than "images" because that is more ambiguous.

Unfortunately, instances of platform censorship aren't always that well documented.

Technically, all moderation would probably be censorship, but it wouldn't be a meaningful commentary, if I invoked that.

I view it from both lens, so I might think of how someone might apply a piece of policy (or draft that), and also call something out.

I've seen a few people refer to censorship as governmental and moderation as private censorship, however, I don't think that captures the dynamics here.

With private censorship, it is important to understand that a lot of the concern comes from the *sheer scale* at which they censor people.

The terms "moderation" and "censorship" come from different social contexts.

One is a term which community managers came up with to describe what they do.

One is a reaction to what governments (if you remember, governments even used to have offices with names like the Office of Film Censors) and private actors do (private censorship has gotten a lot more scrutiny in recent years).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust Worth reading. #privacy

In one case, they put emphasis on pushing for improvements in appeals processes and the like. They then go "hoorah!" as if this is a big victory.

It isn't as if this is without value but a bigger issue are deliberate policy decisions. Facebook removing nudity is a deliberate policy decision. It's not as simple as someone making a mistake.

I've seen the EFF and the ACLU doing good work to defend free expression.

Looking at their site, GFF does good work on privacy but is almost absent on free expression issues.

Privacy is still an important area to work in, and it's good that they do that, but it's also worth considering their limitations. Don't expect too much from them in that area.

No one expects the new admin problem.

For instance, eBay got a new CEO and then decided to ban NSFW products. Could be worse on the fediverse, if someone is used to certain dynamics with the admin.

Just in case it comes up again.

Reminder that "safety by design" is a euphemism for censorship which an unreasonable foreign politician came up with.